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...debt-ridden Turnpike Authority announced the parcel’s auction in January after years of back-and-forth discussions on the potential for the land, which is split down the middle by turnpike roads and crisscrossed by CSX railway tracks. In 1997, the Turnpike sold a less-encumbered 47-acre piece of adjacent property to the University for $151 million...
...highest bidder in an auction for 91 acres of severely encumbered Allston land, Harvard will likely expand its land holdings across the river by nearly one third this Friday—but the new land could come with some heavy political baggage...
...Harvard’s approximately $5 million offer will probably win the auction for the contested piece, according to Turnpike Authority spokesperson Sean O’Neil...
...open in American museums. There are Himalayan bronzes and paintings in Chicago, Mongol ceramics and carvings in Los Angeles, and Japanese animation figures in West Palm Beach, Fla. If you go online before March 29, you can snag a fair example of Totalitarian Kitsch at the Sotheby's/eBay auction of Maoist artifacts www.sothebys.com) At last glance, $172.50 would get you three red plastic badges with cameo silhouettes of the Great Helmsman. And when the new and improved Peabody Essex Museum reopens in June, it will feature on its grounds an early 19th century Chinese merchant's house, which the museum...
...some point, after one of the Northeastern rowers allegedly stole his sunglasses, Howard said he left the auction to retrieve them...